HURLEY, C.J (reading the judgment of the court):
The first appellant was convicted of robbery and 2nd appellant was convicted of abetment of the robbery and of voluntary causing hurt to the complainant. The complainant was a native of Dahomey and was employed as an accountant in a bank at Fort Lamy. On 27th February, 1966, he left Fort Lamy to travel through Nigeria to Dahomey. He spent that night at Maiduguri and left for Kano next morning. He arrived in Kano the following morning, and took the 9.30 train to Kaduna, which he reached about 3:15 pm the same day, 1st March. He went to Kawo village and through the good office of a Dan Commission joined a kitcar or van driven by the 1st appellant, paying him £1 for a journey to Ilorin. The 1st appellant was employed by new Nigeria Newspapers, the owners of the kitcar, and was taking parcels of newspaper to Ilorin. The 2nd appellant was a fellow passenger, and the two appellants and the complainant satin two front compartment of the kitcar …